Miracles Of Mahamantra Navkar

SR No.: 032462
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mahodaysagar
Publisher: Kastur Prakashan Trust
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 360
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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wrong path of taking prohibited food, indulgence in the joys of the mundane world and over much of care of the body etc. This has come true, thanks to the eternally true, saviour and infinitely beneficial Navakara Mantra. I here narrate one correct incident of my life.
It was during the days of the rule of the religiously blind and begotted Muslims that India was ruled by the Mughal emperor Akbar, who had slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Hindus, and as a result, hundreds of satis burnt themselves in fire to save their chastity. He was diverted to the Jaina order by the force of renunciation-austerity and self-control so that he proclaimed prohibition on animal-slaughter and became himself almost a vegetarian thanks to the grand influence of the most revered Acharya Hiravijaya Surishvaraji. He was born in Palanpur on the junction of the three states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Banaskantha. In this city I was born on 11-2-30 at night as the son of Sheth Shri Saubhagyachand Laxmichand Jhaveri and Smt. Kamaladevi who had all the culture of a noble Jain family.
It was because of the laxity of Punya of the earlier life that I lost my revered father and was brought up by my extremely loving grandfather and the warm love and regard of my mother who was like a tirtha to me.
My mother was rich in her cultural values as a Shravika. She regularly seated me on her lap in childhood and made hard effort to divert my mind to the Jaina values and also tried hard to save me from prohibited food, food at night, lowly speech, falsehood, mischief etc. This she did by telling me the romantic stories of great men and religious stories at the time of going to sleep. Thus, she contributed a lot in giving shape to my future life.